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  2. Sensus divinitatis - Wikipedia

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    Sensus divinitatis (Latin for "sense of divinity"), also referred to as sensus deitatis ("sense of deity") or semen religionis ("seed of religion"), is a term first employed by French Protestant reformer John Calvin to describe a postulated human sense.

  3. Argument from reason - Wikipedia

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    1. Since everything in nature can be wholly explained in terms of nonrational causes, human reason (more precisely, the power of drawing conclusions based solely on the rational cause of logical insight) must have a source outside of nature. 2. If human reason came from non-reason it would lose all rational credentials and would cease to be ...

  4. Nous - Wikipedia

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    The human nous was darkened after the Fall of Man (which was the result of the rebellion of reason against the nous), [79] but after the purification (healing or correction) of the nous (achieved through ascetic practices like hesychasm), the human nous (the "eye of the heart") will see God's uncreated Light (and feel God's uncreated love and ...

  5. Theodicy - Wikipedia

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    The Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyya, whose writings became influential in Wahhabism, argued that, while God creates human acts, humans are responsible for their deeds as the agents of their acts. [72] He held that divine creation is good from a causal standpoint, as God creates all things for wise purposes. [ 72 ]

  6. Actus purus - Wikipedia

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    According to Thomas Aquinas, God can also be defined as the act of all acts, the perfection of all perfections and the perfect Being. [ 2 ] This Being is also called being in the strong sense or intensive Being ( Esse ut actus, or Actus essendi ) to distinguish it from being in the weak sense or common being ( esse commune ) of all created ...

  7. Belief - Wikipedia

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    For example, seeing that a traffic light has switched to red is usually associated with a belief that the light is red, which in turn causes the driver to bring the car to a halt. Functionalists use such characteristics to define beliefs: whatever is caused by perceptions in a certain way and also causes behavior in a certain way is called a ...

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  9. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event, or mental process of the brain.